An Account of the first Voyages and Discoveries Made by the Spaniards in America

Title An Account of the first Voyages and Discoveries Made by the Spaniards in America Containing the most Exact Relation Hitherto Publish'd, of their Unparallel'd Cruelties on the Indians, in the Destruction of above Forty Millions of People: with the Propositions Offer'd to the King of Spain to Prevent the Further Ruin of the West-Indies ... to which is added, The Art of Travelling, Shewing how a Man may Dispose his Travels to the best Advantage
Creator(s)
Publisher / Printer by J. Darby for D. Brown
Year 1699
Physical Description 8°, pp. 248, 40 (pagination starts over but not signatures).
Notes This edition is a translation of Bartolomé de las Casas's 'Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias' (1552, though written in 1542). This extremely important work was published in numerous languages and editions across Europe. English translations of this text appeared in the years 1583, 1625, 1656, [1663?], 1689, and 1699. The 1699 translation 'bears an important concordance with the French translation of 1698' (Delahaye, p. 48). It also contains the engravings of Theodore De Bry which accompanied previous editions. See Marieke Delahaye, 'Translation as a tool in the scramble for the Americas: A case study of some of the English translations of the 'Brevísima relación' by La Casas' in 'Politics, Policy and Power in Translation History', eds. Lieven D’hulst, Carol O’Sullivan, Michael Schreiber (2016), pp. 33-52.
Apodemic Texts
Apodemic Text The Art of Travelling to Advantage
Language English